Windows 7 Documents Listings

[crescere]

I don’t know how this happened, but in Windows 7 I seem to have acquired two sets of Documents folders. There appear to be certain folders that are in one group, but not the other. How does Windows 7 retain documents? When I click Start/Computer/C/Users/My User name/My Documents I get a slightly different list than when I select Start/Documents.

The Start/Documents says it is in Libraries/Documents and it “includes two locations.” These two locations are “My Documents” and “Public Documents.”

I am hoping I am just being stupid and I really do not have two separate groups of documents. Please explain away my confusion. Thank you.

 

[johnb35]

Thats just the way windows 7 does it, one is basically a shortcut. And no, you don't have double files so no extra space is being used.

 

[labroder]

Vista and newer operating systems uses symbolic links (junction points). Even you can manually do symbolic links to folders using dedicated utility mklink.